Feminist Perspectives in Anthropology - JSM129

• Title: Feminist Perspectives in Anthropology
• Czech title: Feminist Perspectives in Anthropology
• Form of teaching: lecture
• Guaranteed by: Department of Sociology (23-KS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2026
• Duration in semesters: 1
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 8
• Examination process: winter s.:combined
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 25 / unknown (20)
• Maximum number of enrolled students: 20
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/section.php?id=232776
• Repeated enrollment: 2 / 2 / 1 / 2
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Mgr. Ema Hrešanová, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Ema Hrešanová, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Annotation

This course provides a space to engage with and discuss a range of feminist works grounded in the discipline of anthropology. It invites students to read, discuss, learn and think critically about key issues, ethnographies and theoretical perspectives that have shaped feminist anthropological perspectives up to date.
It is designed as a reading and discussion seminar based on intensive student engagement and interaction with the feminist anthropological scholarship and with each other.
Following Mahmud (2021), this course follows feminist work in socio-cultural anthropology in four areas of particular relevance to feminist anthropological scholarship:
1) The anthropology of science and medicine
2) Political anthropology
3) Economic anthropology
4) Ethnography as writing and genre.

Last update: Hrešanová Ema, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.09.2024)

Course completion requirements

Please see the moodle page for particular deadlines and guidelines:

Course Requirement and Assignments:

1)     Group work:

a)     An ethnographic research project on a relevant topic of one's choice

b)  Opinion essay (op-ed) on the topic of choice (30%)

  Individual work:

a. a concluding debate about the required literature and themes of the class      

b. Active participation in seminar discussions (10%)

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Tips to write an op-ed:

Donnelly, M. 2023. “Writing Op-Eds in Anthropology Courses.“ Cultural Anthropology. Teaching Tools. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/writing-op-eds-in-anthropology-courses

Op-ed project: https://www.theopedproject.org/resources

General tips: https://www.oxbridgeessays.com/blog/how-to-write-an-opinion-essay/

 

Please avoid any signs of plagiarism in any of these assignments. This is a useful source to get oneself acquainted with plagiarism and how to avoid it: 

How to avoid plagiarism. Student Handbook 

 

Grades: (in line with the Faculty of Social Sciences Dean’s regulation)

• 91 % a více       =>          A
• 81-90 %             =>          B
• 71-80 %             =>          C
• 61-70 %             =>          D
• 51-60 %             =>          E
• 0-50 %                =>          F

Last update: Hrešanová Ema, Mgr., Ph.D. (11.09.2026)

Literature

Key literature:

Lewin, E. 2006. Feminist Anthropology: A Reader.Blackwell Publishing.

Mahmud, L. 2021. Feminism in the House of Anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology 50: 345-361. https://ssrn.com/abstract=3952403 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-101819-110218

 

Key resource:

Feminist Anthropology journal.

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/26437961

Further required readings specified in the detailed theme overview and schedule in the MOODLE page here: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=16487

Last update: Hrešanová Ema, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.09.2024)

Registration requirements

This course is open to students with a general background in socio-cultural anthropology.

Last update: Hrešanová Ema, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.09.2024)